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How Should We Speak of Unspeakable Evil?

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ho killed the Jews? “Grandma and grandpa” is another, far more unsettling, way to answer the question, Goldhagen suggested. It can sometimes appear as if it were the desire of an entire generation not to be implicated in Nazi atrocities that led to the creation of these subtle discourses of distance, a way to detach ourselves now from the horror of then. This story—the story of the complexity of assessing culpability in the face of mass movements…

Report From Paris: Who Is Naomi Klein, Religiously?

By Donna Schaper

…now the answer to that. We “let” our offspring find their own (individual) way instead of surrounding them with a great human story about creation, redemption, life and death, the other and ourselves. The Golden Rule comes to mind as an alternative story of great reciprocity – love your neighbor as you love yourself. We just decided in the last and lost generations to not require that people learn it, in community, any more. We have good excuses….

#Churchtoo: Apology of Evangelical Pastor Accused of Sexual Assault Shows Why Sorry Isn’t Enough

By Jessica Johnson

…raying, in agreement, in unison, would you touch Miss Woodson’s heart in a way that only you can, and heal her of the pain that was caused from this sin twenty years ago. God, would you also heal Andy, Amanda [his wife], and their family, from the lingering effects of this sin twenty years ago. And God, would you give every single one of us the ability to be more committed to what it means to love you, and to love other people and to live in such…

Evangelicals Looking for Walker to “Do Nothing” in 2016 Election

By Sarah Posner

…ot all evangelicals admire his speaking style or cultural cues in the same way. “I’m not impressed” with Cruz, said Mattson, adding that he speaks in a way that is “decidedly phony to me.” In contrast, Walker speaks the right language, “but not in a polarizing way,” said Mattson. “He doesn’t sound pandering like a Huckabee and doesn’t come across as strident and divisive like Santorum. He’s winsome.” Still, though, Walker does play a good-versus-e…

Freezing Our Way to a Fiery Hell?

By Steve A. Wiggins

Psalms of lament are being sent heavenward this winter. Like a kid, I’m hoping for a snow day today. The forecasters have gone apocalyptic again with inches of white fluff expected overnight. I wake at dawn and pull back the curtain, but not a flake has fallen. This winter has been like that. The south digs out from yet another snowstorm. Boston has drifts that could bury a yeti. The blizzard of the century last month may have missed us New Yorke…

The Broken Promise of Gwyneth Paltrow’s ‘The Goop Lab’

By Daniel Albert Joslyn

…essentially takes that obsession as a given and encourages a “more natural way” of giving in to them. In the last two episodes, “The Energy Experience” and “Are You Intuit?” we learn both that “our consciousness actually shifts or alters in some way shape or form physical reality,” and that “we’re all born hardwired to each other and the other side.” Psychic energy, we learn, from medium Laura Lynn Jackson, is “a gift that belongs to all of us, bu…

Tebow’s Tears: Is God Really a Gator Fan?

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…the evangelist warns in the very verse Tebow selected. Every champion is always but one week away from meeting the player, or the team, that is bigger and faster and stronger. Learning how to lose is one key aspect of such an encounter. The trick is to do so peace, with good cheer. According to the canons of the New Testament so regularly deployed by Tebow—there have been 4 selections from the Hebrew Bible this year, 2 from the Christian gospels,…

What the Ferguson Protests Mean for Religious Progressive Activism

By Shannon Craigo-Snell

…were either homogenous and religious, or diverse and non-religious. Either way, a major source of power was missing. We could not find a way to tap into both the power of our diversity and the power of our religious convictions. We were left arguing on the basis of human rights or expediency or a vague notion of the common good. None of this has the power of the basic truth that 2+2 does, in fact, equal 4. Ferguson is different. On August 19th,…

A New Book For Those Who Cling to a “Post-Racial” Christianity

By Brian Bantum

…d and disingenuous to tell a story that wasn’t mine. I hope I told it in a way that was invitational though, that speaks in a way that makes room for others, with gaps and spaces that are meant to be filled. I realized that what was left out was actually important because the work is ultimately an invitation for all of us to ask how people of faith can confess God’s presence in new ways. By trying to re-center the body in our theological imagining…

The Holocaust is Over: Avraham Burg’s Israel and Jews as Victims

By David Biale

…m and dissent, more so, probably, than most countries at war. In a curious way, this dissent—the more vociferous and hyperbolic the better—confirms the worldview of the patriots: “we, unlike our enemies, criticize ourselves and are therefore justified in whatever we do.” For all his appeals to universalism and non-chauvinist nationalism, Burg participates in a well-honed Israeli—and thus very particularistic—rhetoric. It is a rhetoric that goes ba…